ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb on Tuesday announced start of the live question and answer sessions of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) Chairman Muhammad Tariq Malik with the public on the Pakistan Television to ensure swift redressal of their issues.
“On the directives of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, an initiative has been taken to listen and resolve the people’s issues [related to NADRA] live. In this regard, the first programme has been telecast on the PTV News at 4:00 pm Tuesday,” she said in a series of the tweets which also carried #PTVNADRAHOUR.
She said on the instructions of Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah, the NADRA chairman would also directly respond to the public queries on different landline numbers including 051-2771123, 051-2771600, 051-8811700 and 051-8811717.
On June 25, Marriyum Aurangzeb had said that the government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had financially ruined the Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) by selling broadcast rights of cricket events to a private TV channel for projecting their “anti-state narrative”.
“Former minister for information and broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain played the role of a facilitator in the crime on the directives of former prime minister Imran Khan and those involved in this crime could not be pardoned,” she had said while addressing a press conference in Islamabad.
“Those who had attacked the PTV building during the 2014 sit-in through a well thought out conspiracy committed the financial murder of the PTV and sold the broadcast rights illegally to a private channel, ‘A Sports’ which until then did not have even a broadcast license when the process of bidding started,” she had said.
The minister had vowed that there would be no compromise on the rights of PTV and its broadcast rights would be returned to it at all cost.
She had said that the PTV as the national broadcaster was the voice of the state and the national identity of Pakistan.
Moreover, she had credited the PTV for giving inspiration to other broadcasters which came up with their own channels by following the PTV model.
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